1
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PERSEVERANCE. LODGE OF
HONGKONG,
enlled for 6.Br.. HE MEETING
TO-DAY (TUESDAY), the 16th inst., is unavoidably Postponed till 9 P.M. on that
dato,
FRANK GRAHAM, Hon. Socratary.
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THE HONGKONG AND SOUTH CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
PPLICATION forms for Membership of
APPLICA Adion may be obtained
from all the Banks or from the undersigned.
THE UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY
OF CANTON, LTD., Honorary Secretation and Treasurere.
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE.
UNION
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 1917.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
INSURANCE SOCIETY CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
OF
and 246, for Five Shares each, $25 pald *HE CERTIFICATES, Nos. 243, 244, 245
"}},
Nos. 2601/2620, standing in the Register in the name of Asospor HASIDAROT, having been declared LOST, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Certificates be produced to the Society on or before the Twelfth day of April, 1917, new Certificates for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificates will thereafter be held by the Society se null und void.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.
176 Hongbong, 12th January, 1917.
NOTICE.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
standing s
ROM 1st February till further notico theHE CERTIFICATE. No. 838, for Five Company's Time Table --
SUNDAYS.
From 5 P.M. to 5.30 p.3. ovary quarter of an hour instead of ovory ten minutes,
From 8.30 PM, to 7 PM erery ten minutes instead of orory quarter of an hour.
SUNDAYS AND WEEK-DAYS. The 810 PM. Car will be discontinued.
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HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS
CO., LTD...
THE COMPANT begs be notify the Publis berville KEDUCED
TWENTY CENTS per 1,000 cubio foot as
from the 1st February next.
By Order of the Directors,
GEORGE CURRY, Local Beereisry; Hongkong, 8th January, 197,
WANTED.
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the Register in the name of AHMEDEHOY HABIBBKOY, having been declared LOST. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unloss the said Corticate be produced to the Company on or before the Twelth day of April, 1917, a new Certificate for the said Shares will be issued and the old Certificate will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager. Hongkong, 12th January, 1917.
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NOTICE.
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE CERTIFICATE for One Bhare, No. 510s in this Compass, stand ing in the unme of Miss JOBS DE JESUB, of Marso, has been LOST, and it at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above document bo not forthcoming anotber Certificate for
FINGINEER, Br., sbetsinar, for Harbour or the said Share will be issued by the
reds., alating age and mary required to
in owa writing copy thereafter ne other
W. &. BAILEY & Co, LED,
Kowloon.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
INTIMATION
DEWAR'S
* IMPERIAL".
AND
EXTRA SPECIAL"
HONGKONG MAGISTRACY,
·HARBOURING A WIFE,
and a new House of Commons consisting RANDOM REFLECTIONS. of cleated representatives of the United
Despite conflicting statements, I under. Kingdom and of the Dominions. Beyond stand that there is a stealthy movement the statement that the Upper Chamber
Yesterday aftórnoon, before Mr. Mol- on foot to institute a combing-out process bourne, a Chinese woman was charged" is to include nominated Indians, uo in Hongkong with the object of releas with the crime of harbouring a married indication is given of ita composition.ing certain young fellows for active Obviously it will not be an hereditary
Chinese women. The latter disappeared wat service. No, definite course has yet from her husband's house in Sai Street, body. Probably it will have a comparabren decided upon, but rumour has it and was traced, first, to a lodging house, tively small membership drawn from the that a few days ago a meeting of business in Connaught Road and from there to a Law Lords, experienced Colonial Ad-
men sot in secret conclave, and the boarding house at Wanchai. ministrators, and distinguished Im-
ubiquitous “little bird" whispers that The defence was that the wife was un- perial atatesmen. Ás
cortain lists of names were prepared and willing to live with her husband, who corollary to this, a British Parliament discussed, and will be forwarded, after she declared, was afflicted with small-pos.. another meeting, to the proper quarters. She had asked the defendant to take.
her away to the country.
necessary
or several British-Parliaments-based un the principle, presumably, of Home Rule, all round--is to bo established in the United Kingdom for purely domestic purposes. It has long been evident that some form of delegation is inevitable if the growing congestion of business at Westminster is to be avoided and matters of local importance are to receive due attention. Private Bills, many of them embodying very desirable improvements and reforms, bave often to wait years for an opportunity of being introduced, and, even then, are more, often than not included in the "massacro of the innocents" at the end of the session. Tho position threatens to grow WHISKY. worse as the work of the Imperial Paris
SCOTCH
AGENTS:
ncknowledged.
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C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong, 19th December, 1910,
A. S. WATSON
NOTICE.
THR WEST POINT BUILDING
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
TWENTY-NINTH
ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offloes of Mesars, JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANT, LIMITED, C MONDAY, 29th January, 1917, at 11.30 AM, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with o Blatement of Acosants for the year ending 31st December, 1916.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLO-ED from THURS. DAY, 18th, to MONDAY, 29th Jonnary, 1917 (both days inclusite), during which period no Transfer of Shares can be Registered," By order of the Board of Direnters.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Becretary to the
Hongkong Land InYmETMEET & KORNOT
COMPANY, LIMITED,
General Agents_for_the_ WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD. 178
Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.
THE HONGKONG CENTRAL
ESTATE, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the THIRD ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Mears. JARDINE, MATHESON & COMPANY, LIMITED, on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917, at 11.45 A.M., Eer the purpose of receiving the Report of the Diretom together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,
1916.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from THURS. DAT, 18th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both days inclusive), during which period no Transfor of Shares esa be Registered."
By Order of the Board of Directors, THE HONGKONG CENTRAL ESTATE, LIMITED.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary to THE GENERAL MANAGERS.
Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
NOTICE HEREBY GIVEN that the
TWENTY-NINTH ORDINARY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs. JARDINS, MATHESON & COMPANY, LTD., on MONDAY, 29th January, 1917, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1016:
THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
CO., LTD.,
TELEPHONE 618.
ment increases, and for that reason alone it is to be assumed that the people of Great Britain and Ireland would welcome some such constitutional change as that foreshadowed. At the same time the Dominions would real'se their aspira tions. Before any plan for remodelling the British Constitution could be put into operation it would, of course, have to be approved by the people of the Empire. This condition could best be fulfilled by means of an elected Convention. With the &oxamplo of other nétions notably the United States of America and of Canada, Australia and South Africa before us, we need not despair of the pos sibility of enrrying such a scheme into effect.
As the Hon. Mr. B. R. WISE,
Defendant was convicted and fined $50. with the alternative of one month's im- prisonment.
Mr. Lindsell, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, prosecuted,
A LUKONG FINED,
If this be true, it is assuredly time to suggest that such clandestine proceedings should be abandoned for the more open methods adopted, for example, both at Home and in Singapore. Surely, the men who may be called upon for active service should be taken into the confidence of those who are arranging matters from their arm-chairs. In most efforts connected with the war hitherto be it a question of raising & war loan or forming a War Savings Association Hongkong has usually been six months behind her neighbours and we do not want a repetition of this over the Man Power question. Several weeks ago Singapore announced her intentions on this subject, end, considering how long the question has been under discussion locally, it is time that the policy which it is proposed to adopt was made public. Within the ing to see. Defendant pushed complain- last few days, I am informed, the young at about and ultimately struck him, men of the Coloay have signed a petition making his nose blood and blackening asking to be told exactly what is expected his eye. The defence was that the com- of their.
"Why not have a City Improvement Association," asks a, correspondent, "in addition to a Reform Association; or combine the two? There would be plenty of work for such a body. May I make the following suggestions? Keop the public statues in a decent and cleanly condition; see that the public clocks are ant allowed to rest from their labours for
A lakong was charged before Mr. Mel bourne with assaulting the proprietor of a pawnwshop situated in Des Vœux Road. The assault took place on board. a Canton steamer lying at her berth. Complainant had gone on board to con- ey to a lady passenger a small parcel containing 340 in subsidiary coins, in. rolla. The lukong demanded to see what was in the parcel, and threatened to
throw overboard some salt and fish which belonged to the lady he was wait-
plainant attempted to strike the defend- ant, who retaliated. In the scule, it was stated, the parcel of money was knocked out of complainant's hand and 0.40 of it was lost.
A fine of $5 was imposed.
A PAWNBROKING TRANSACTION.
A Chinese lad, described as a tailor's. apprentice, appeared on remand before Mr. Melbourne, charged with (1) attempt ing to get money by false pretences in a pawnshop, and (2) giving false informa
pledge a bangle.
The case for the prosecution was that defendant entered the pawnshop and pro duced a bangle, the metal mounting of which he represented was gold, and, when asked, gave a wrong name to the pawn- broker. The "gold was found to be as counterfeit as the name.
CERTIFICATE for Two Bhares, THE
Nos. 414/5416 in this Company. WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, Agent-General for New South Wales, heroral days; keep an eye on the road-tion in connection with an attempt to standing in the name of Mise FELIBBINA NOGUEIRA, of Macso, has been LOST, and if at the expiration of one month from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate for the said Shares will no issued by the Company and thereafter no other will bo acknowledged.
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
General Manager. Hongkong, 16th December, 1916. [115
HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANT, LIMITED
T
sorporated in the United Kingdom).
LOST.
TRANSFER RECEIPT Noð, 1277 iesnied
to Messrs, Logan & Baste for Transfer of 100 Nhares in this Company into the name of Mr. RHGA WALLS, having been MISLAID, LOST, or DESTROYED, NOTICE IS HEREBT GIVEN that "unlose the mid Receipt is produced at this Offlos within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificate for the said Shares will be delivered to the said Mrs. RHEA WELLE, and the Transfer Receipt will thereafter be hokit by the Company as all and void.
W. E. ROBERTS,
Bocretary. Hongkong, 19th December, 1916. [110
NOTICE.
A. §. WATSON & CO., LIMITED
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Hangrens Office: 101, Das Vaux ROAD, Losnon Orionms 181, Fram Bar, B.C.
The Daily Press.
Honorowo 16TH JANUARY, 1917.
IMPERIAL FEDERATION.
pointed out, there should be no more
ways and make roadmenders use screens. difficulty in raising a tax in Westminster when chipping a macadamised surface; se by an Imperial Parliament than in rais-that roads are so repaired that they need ing at Sydney a tax imposed by the Com
not be torn up every five minutes; monwealth. Parliament sitting at Mel-endeavour to modernize the primitive bourne. In the first instance, no doubt, methods of dealing with night-soil; equip the powers of such a body would be Kimit policemen with some knowledge of local ed to questions of foreign policy and topography; agitate for the registration defense, but by degrees its functions of boys and so protect us against might be extended to other matters of harbouring criminals in our households," common concern. For present purposes, therefore, the proposed machinery seems unnecessarily elaborate.
An advertisement in another column calls attention to several changes to be made in the Peak Tramway's time table on and after February 1st.
We are informed that the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, is prepared to receive and forward to London applications for the New War Loan:
Application forms for membership of the Hongkong and South China War
from the Union Insurance Society of Savings Association may be obtained
In the fires of war the component parts of the British Empire are being rapidly fused into one. Interest and gentiment alike are impelling the Dominiona to wards a closer, union, with; and another and with the Mother country. It has been made abundantly clear in the speeches of the Overseas representatives who have visited England since 1914 that NE CERTIFICATE for 25 Shares New, there must be some reconstruction of the for & Shares Nos. 51403/51407 in this Company,
5400/7424 816 ONE CERTIFICATE Imperial fabric when the mighty Canton, Ltd. standing in the name of Mr. Tano LAN Kook, struggle which is now in progress shall Inte of 18, Qusen's Road, Hongkong, Lave been have ended. As Sir ROBERT BORDEN, the | LOST, and if at the expiration of One Month
from the date hereof the above documents be Fremier of Canada, declared in London not forthcoming, other Certificates for the said in August last: Once and for all it Shares will be issued by the Company and thereafter no other will be acknowledged,
has been borne in upon the minds and A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. Hongkong, 11th January, 1917.
souls of all of us that the great policies which touch and control the issues of At the Social Evening to be held at peace and war concern more than the the Men's Club, Seamen's Institute, people of these Islands." In other to-morrow (Wednesday), at 7.15 p.m., words, the Daughter nations claim the the programme will be provided by the right to take part in shaping the Stonecutters Concert Party Admission foreign policy of the Empire as well as will be free. in sharing the consequences, of that policy. The justice of this claim is freely occurring in the Colony during the The return of communicable diseases
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NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. ULDERUP & SCHLUTER IN LIQUIDATION.
The BEGISTER of SHARES of the Coment, pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY,
FIRST DIVIDEND OF 20%.
NREDITORS of the sbore Firm are hereby notified that a First Dividend of 20 per on the amout of their Claims will be paid
THURSDAY. the 1st of February, 1917.
W. G. HUMPHREYS & Co.,
Liquidatora.
The attention of Masons is called, to the fact that the meeting of the Perse- verance Lodge arranged for 6.15 p.m., to-day (Tuesday) Laa been unavoidably postponed until 9 p.m.,
18th, to MONDAY. 29th January, 1917 (both on application to the Undersigned on and after admitted. The difficulty hitherto has been week ending January 13th shows that the
daya inclusive), during which period no Transfer
of Shares can be Registered
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 11th January, 1917,
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LIMITED.
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The defence was that defendant did not
state that the bangle mounting was gold, that the name he gave was the name of with defendant's brother as security for the owner of the bangle, who had left it
a debt, and that defendant was merely acting for the latter, who had sent him to pawn the article.
His Worship found defendant not guilty of the first charge but guilty of the second, and imposed a fine of 83:
Mr. Mattingley, solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Gardiner, solicitor, for the defendant,
MISSING ANCHORS OF THE "HUE."
China is young, but is very old, too,” writes correspondent from Swatow.
She is old in invention, as I saw illus. trated in the Sam Kweh Chl,' China's famous historical novel of the 3rd Century A.D. Much has been written and heard lately of the famous 'Tanks' and of the great commotion their pre-
A Frenchman named M. Balusatia,. sence on the front has caused. No less first officer on the ss. ue, was charged commotion was caused when there appear with the theft of two anchors belonging.
in the armies of one of the ancient les to the vessel, on the 10th inst.
The Hon. C.8.P. (Mr. C. Mei, Messer) ders'in China a monstrous looking crea appeared to prosecute, and said that the ture called "Woodon Running Horse" 6.8. Lluc, which belonged to Messrs. Marty & Company, had been lying in from its half horse half-or appearance.the harbour for some time past, arrange. A detailed account is given of its comments being made for selling her to On January 10th, the captain of the boat reported to the Police. struction and the mechanism by which another firm. it was propelled. This mechanism was that two anchors were missing, and the concealed within its body as well as the Captain saw him (Mr. Messer) in his. office about it. The Police made en- soldiers who controlled it It could
quiries; and the anchors were discovered ascend hills or go down dales, carrying being taken out of the harbour in a junk. loads of rice and provisions to the men- The junk was detained and the master stated that he had bought them from a this was its chief servico. The construe marine store dealer at a reasonable tion was ingenious, no doubt, but not so price." This was found to be true, and the marine store dealer then showed that ingenious as to warrant the legend he purchased them from a marine hawker among the Chinese that this mirabilis, to whom they had been sold by the co- fendant. The marine hawker was found, macking was self-propelled and could go
or stop at it whim."
Several times during the past fortnight the Water Authority has had its hopes raised only to be speedily dashed. Où four occasions there have been gentle showers which promised to develop into heavy
and he produced a receipt, sigued by the defendant. The police had that receipt. The only reason why he (Mr. Messer) was prosecuting was because Mr. Thomss, of Maaty & Company, had approached the police and asked that the matter might bo allowed to drop, as they had got the bion of compounding a felony, and the | anchors back. Of course that was a quos-
police could not be a party to that Sub- sequently, he was rung up on the tele
phono and asked if the charge could be withdrawn, the only reason given being that defendant was a white man, and was married. I defendant had been Chinese, the Company would not have minded proseuting, and would never- have asked if he had been married or no, Mr. Otto Kong Sing defended and Mr. E, J. Grist, appeared to watch the case behalf of the marme store dealer.
on
to give practical effect to it. Joint re- total cases of small-pox notified number downpoure, but in the end only sufficient No. 15, Queen's Road Central, sponsibility for foreign policy necessarily ed 94 (two of them British), 71 of which rain fell to lay the dust for an hour or
involves joint control over the Ariny and were in the city of Victoria. The deaths, and the officials in the water do Navy, and that, in turn, demands joint numbered 67. Six of the cases were partment are still full of anxiety at the HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, acceptance of the cost of maintaining imported. There were four cases of gradual emptying of the reservoirs. The THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
those two services. There are also various enteric fever, all fatal, and one each of position is becoming really serious, and A already notified this COMPANY'S proposals relating
to inter Imperial diphtheria (Chinese) and scarlet fever will soon call for the adoption of TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that th
GENERATING PLANT is N SIXTEENTE ORDINARY MEGT oarrying In the song PE in how trade which have been brought into great
(Portuguese).
stringent measures if Jupiter Pluvius
A remand was asked for by Mr. Otto ING of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company and no further installations can be niade for the prominence by this way. The result has
Yesterday, in St. John's Cathedral, continuous to hold his hand. For Kong Bing, and Mr. Messer stated that will be held at the Offices of Mesers, JARDINE, present Consumers and Wiring Contractors been that the problem of how to effect a MATHESON & Co., Lab, on MONDAY, 2011 | are warned against the denger of making
the marriage was quietly solemoized of several months now the weather has been the Captain of the Fue had not turned“ up, so that they would have to subpoena January, 1917, at 19.15 pm, for the parpos of additicas to existing installations and are closer organic union of the Empire with Mr. James Miller Gordon, son of the ideal, but all this time the water in the him. The manager of Messrs. Marty iz receiving the Report of the Directors together reminded that under the Regulations for
was also feaving the Colony, to- with the Statement of Accounts for the year securing the Safety of the Public contained in out encroaching upon the local autonomy late Mr. James Gordon, Port Elisabeth, reservoirs has been falling lower and Co. ending 31st December, 1916.
the Schedule to the Electricity Supply Or which the various States comprised South Africa, and Miss Lilian Lila Lang
lowor. The street fountain system has morrow. The Captain would have to be called. Eventually it was decided to The REGISTER of SHARES of the Com-dinance 1911 (and amended) Any person making within it value so highly has been exer don, daughter of the late Captain C been in vogue for some time now, but partly hear the case to-day pany will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, any addition to any electrical installation con- 18th, to MONDAY, 29th January, 1917 (both nested to the Company's main.
On the question of bail, Mr. Kong days inclusive), inring which period no Transfer shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fit claing the minds of the foremost states Langdon, R.V., Balham, England, and if the drought lasts much longer even
Sing muggested $500, saying defendant Dollars for ovary zach addition."
men and thinkers of the day. According adopted daughter of the late Mr. Robert this attempt to conserve the supply will could not possibly leave the Colony. By Order of the Board.
to the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Hughes, Kobe, Japan. The ceremony be found insufficient to stave off a most
Mr. Messer-Oh, yes he can, there are a project will soon be made public for was performed by the Rev. V. H. Copley inconvenient period of water allowance.ways and means of doing it especially-
for a shipping man. creating an Imperial House of Lords, Moyle, M. A
RODERICK RANDOM. Bail was Exed at $1,000.
of Shares can be Registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY 8. NORTHCOTE, Secretary. Mongkong, 11th January, 1917.
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GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Aguata. Hongkọng, 5th January, 1917. (155